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Show Pulleys Ship Turkeys East A. W. Pulley and Sons shipped 4,200 turkeys to the New York market mar-ket for the Thanksgiving trade on Friday and Saturday of last week, one car going out each day. ' The shipment will be marketed by John Pulley who left later by train to sell the shipment. The two cars represented 50,000 pounds of dressed turkeys. The toms weighed up to 20 pounds, averaging about 16 pounds, while the hens averaged from 11 to 12 pounds. This is the largest single shipment of turkeys to go out of American Pork from any grower and represented repre-sented a total outlay of $9,000 to the I growers. The birds were purchased from Oregon last May, 3,000 arriving on the 5th and 2,000 on the 18th. The young turks cost nearly $2,000 and the feeding and fattening cost ran upwards of $5,000. Ranching labor costs together with killing and dressing dress-ing ran the cost up to $9,000 for the entire flock. Two men "were used in ranching the birds along with the Pulley brothers who helped in the feeding. Killing and dressing was done in four days by a crew of 80 persons. Roughing and picking, done mostly by girls, was the biggest job, al- though wrapping, boxmg and loading load-ing of 4,200 birds is no small job. This is the sixth year the Pulley family have handled turkeys on a large scale, they having now become the largest single producer in the county. The advance market this fall is anything but promising but it is expected ex-pected that the price will be bolstered bolster-ed up by Thanksgiving time and the producers will at least receive production pro-duction cost, which is said to be 20 cents a pound in this section. |